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This bug also happens to me. I am attaching my Xorg.0.log here. The log includes log entries after four Ctrl+Alt+F<n> strokes (n = 1..6). Stroke #1 is the first attempt to switch to a VC (virtual console). It failed in the following way: the corresponding virtual console (VC) appeared for a split second, but then the X screen reappeared. If this happens, retrying it (stroke #2) immediately always succeeded.
Stroke #3 also failed: it took place several minutes apart (I have no idea about the exact time interval) from the strokes #1 and #2. Stroke #4, a retry of stroke #3, also succeeded. In brief, after one failure, other following attempts would succeeded if they are closely spaced. But then if we don't switch to any VC for a period of time (maybe several minutes), then attempting to switch to one of the VCs would "fail" as I descibed above.
I am using Xubuntu 8.10 with the following package versions:
xorg version 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
linux kernel: linux-image-
The hardware is Dell Lattitude D600 with the following peripheral:
~ $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
The X driver used is the open-source ATI driver in the xorg package.
The following bug has Ctrl+Alt+F<n> as a workaround, but the secondary bug with the virtual console described here adds even more inconvenience to the use of LInux on Dell laptops:
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Wirawan